Hello Cygwin list, I'm part of the Visual Studio team at Microsoft which includes mingit/Git for Windows in our product for Git tooling integration (I'm copying a couple of folks from my team in this email too). One of our API scanning tools has identified msys2.0.dll calling undocumented Windows APIs like ntdll.dll!NtAssignProcessToJobObject:
* In cygwin - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acygwin%2Fcygwin+NtAssignProcessToJobObject&type=code with a caller: cygwin/winsup/cygwin/resource.cc at 21a2c9db6952954608cdf92638b411b15e7606c6 * cygwin/cygwin<https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/blob/21a2c9db6952954608cdf92638b411b15e7606c6/winsup/cygwin/resource.cc#L246> * Looks like it was introduced ~3 years ago: https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/commit/1c7384f9d1b692c8b58af4db8c81d2ce0b10ad06#diff-bc84d57ac99958a694cb56b977bac1360e35040f9aa421972702219e11055ae8R290 * The code indicates to have come from oneTBB/test/tbbmalloc/test_malloc_compliance.cpp at bd291eb0d1c7f802ca5081a8755562ab786db2a2 * uxlfoundation/oneTBB<https://github.com/uxlfoundation/oneTBB/blob/bd291eb0d1c7f802ca5081a8755562ab786db2a2/test/tbbmalloc/test_malloc_compliance.cpp#L56-L78>, though in that case the usage is of the documented API instead. We believe the above call should get replaced by the following documented API - AssignProcessToJobObject function (jobapi2.h) - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/jobapi2/nf-jobapi2-assignprocesstojobobject> Are you aware of this undocumented API call or a reason to not attempt updating them to documented ones? The scan identified a few others like: * NtOpenJobObject * NtCreateJobObject * NtOpenMutant - we're not sure yet of the documented call for this one. * NtQueryInformationJobObject * NtSetInformationJobObject We need to further investigate as the documented calls may not be identical. I would appreciate any thoughts/feedback or pointing us on the right direction. My team would be looking into proposing a change if the above sounds reasonable to this list. Thanks, Veronica -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
